# Rename Frames on the Filmstrip

You can rename one or several frames on the Filmstrip window. This is useful if you want to define a more descriptive name for your frames, or want to reflect a change in purpose for the recorded acquisitions.

You can rename frames by two means:

- To rename a single frame, simply left-click its name in the header, then change its name. Apply the renaming by clicking anywhere else on the user interface afterwards.

- To rename multiple frames at once, use the Rename Selected Frames dialog.

Perform the following steps to rename multiple frames with the Rename Selected Frames dialog:

1. Go to the Filmstrip window. If it not already visible, click View > Filmstrip in the View menu.

   The Filmstrip window should appear.

2. Select the frame(s) you want to rename. If you want to rename a single frame, just right-click it and select the Rename Selected Frames option. If you want to rename multiple frames, click Shift + Left Mouse Button on the first and last frames of the range that you want to rename, or click Ctrl + Left Mouse Button to select multiple frames in the window one after the other. Once you selected all frames you want to rename, right-click on any of the selected frames, and select Rename Selected Frames.

3. The Rename Selected Frames dialog then appears. Select the renaming method most appropriate to you, specify the rename string in the applicable textbox, and then click OK to perform the renaming.

   - Select the Prepend textbox to prepend the specified string to the name of each frame. For example, if the frames are named Frame, and you specify Circuit_, then this setting renames each frame to Circuit_Frame.
   - Select the Append textbox to append the specified string to the name of each frame. For example, if the frames are named Frame, and you specify _Circuit, then this setting renames each frame to Frame_Circuit.

   - Select the Find/Replace option to quickly find a frame name string (specified in the Find: field) and replace it with the string specified in the Replace with: textbox. In this example, the frames were originally named Frame, and have all been renamed to Circuit with this setting, as shown below.

Tip:

Renaming only affects the frame name specified with the Name Filmstrip control, regardless of the type of renaming selected (Prepend, Append, or Find/Replace). It does not affect the sequence number of the selected frames. To change the automatically configured sequence number for subsequent recordings, use the Counter control as described in the Filmstrip Window Components topic. To change the sequence number of an existing frame on the Filmstrip, click the frame number in the header, and then type in the new number, or increase/decrease the value with the stepper buttons: